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Four Against the Odds: The Struggle to Save Our Environment
Four Against the Odds The Struggle to Save Our Environment Author:Stephen Krensky In the last 100 years, people have changed the face of the world in countless ways. Industry and progress have given us electricity, the automobile, the telephone. They have also given the world pollution, a population explosion, and mass destruction of the natural environment. Four Against the Odds is about four people who realized the peril to... more » our environment, and vowed to do something about it.
JOHN MUIR, a pioneer who saved beautiful Yosemite National Park from ranchers and railroads.
RACHEL CARSON, a biologist who fought the chemical industry to tell how pesticides were not only killing insects, but human beings as well.
LOIS GIBBS, who battled bureaucracy and ignorance to get help for her neighbors in Love Canal, a neighborhood built on a toxic waste dump.
CHICO MENDES, a rubber tapper in the jungles of Brazil who was murdered because he fought to save the rain forests.
Here are four exciting, true stories of courageous people in defense of our world. They will set an example for us all.« less